NASDAQ:LMB Limbach Q2 2025 Earnings Results & Report $51.26 +0.31 (+0.61%) Closing price 10/9/2026 04:00 PM EasternExtended Trading$51.33 +0.07 (+0.14%) As of 10/9/2026 07:30 PM Eastern Extended trading is trading that happens on electronic markets outside of regular trading hours. This is a fair market value extended hours price provided by Massive. Learn more. Limbach beat analyst earnings expectations but missed on revenue in its Q2 2025 results, released August 5, 2025. The company reported EPS of $0.93 versus the $0.81 consensus estimate, while revenue of $142.24 million fell short of the $144.21 million estimate by $1.97 million. Revenue increased 16.4% year over year. Research:ProfileEarnings HistoryForecast Earnings Announcement Details QuarterQ2 2025Report DateAugust 5, 2025TimeAfter Market ClosesConference Call DateAugust 6, 2025Conference Call9:00 AM ET Limbach EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.93Consensus EPS $0.81Beat/MissBeat by +$0.12One Year Ago EPS$0.73EPS Beat Rate6 of last 8 quartersLimbach Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$142.24 millionExpected Revenue$144.21 millionBeat/MissMissed by -$1.97 millionYoY Revenue Growth+16.40%Upcoming EarningsLimbach's Q3 2026 earnings is estimated for Tuesday, November 3, 2026, based on past reporting schedules, with a conference call scheduled on Wednesday, November 4, 2026 at 9:00 AM ET. Check back for transcripts, audio, and key financial metrics as they become available.Conference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckPress Release (8-K)Quarterly Report (10-Q)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by Limbach Q2 2025 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrAugust 6, 2025ShareShareShare This ReportLink copied to clipboard.Key Takeaways Positive Sentiment: Our ODR business grew to 76.6% of total revenue in Q2 2025 (up from 21% in 2019), driving margin expansion and improving our risk profile. Positive Sentiment: Second quarter results showed revenue of $142.2 million (+16.4%), adjusted EBITDA of $17.9 million (+30%), and EPS of $0.64 (+28%). Positive Sentiment: The acquisition of Pioneer Power—our largest to date—adds approximately 300 employees, expands our footprint into the Upper Midwest, and integration is underway across 17 MSAs. Positive Sentiment: We bolstered our sales organization with 40 on-site account managers and a new SVP of Sales to convert reactive OpEx work into predictable CapEx programs. Neutral Sentiment: For full-year 2025, we expect revenue of $650–680 million and adjusted EBITDA of $80–86 million, with contributions weighted more heavily in Q4 as Pioneer integration proceeds. AI Generated. May Contain Errors.Conference Call Audio Live Call not available Earnings Conference CallLimbach Q2 202500:00 / 00:00Speed:1x1.25x1.5x2xThere are 6 speakers on the call. Speaker 500:00:00Good morning and welcome to the second quarter 2025 Limbach Holdings Inc. earnings conference call and webcast. All participants will be in the listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. I will now turn the conference over to your host, Lisa Fortuna, of Financial Profiles. You may begin. Speaker 400:00:25Good morning and thank you for joining us today to discuss Limbach Holdings Inc.'s financial results for the second quarter of 2025. Yesterday, Limbach Holdings Inc. issued its earnings release and filed its Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2025. Both documents, as well as an updated investor presentation, are available on the Investor Relations section of the company's website at www.limbachinc.com. Management may refer to select slides during today's call and encourages investors to review the presentation in its entirety. On today's call are Michael McCann, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Jeremy Hellman, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. We will begin with prepared remarks and then open the call to questions. Before we begin, I would like to remind you that today's comments will include forward-looking statements under federal securities laws. Speaker 400:01:22Forward-looking statements are identified by words such as "will," "be," "intend," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," or other comparable words or phrases. Statements that are not historical facts, such as those about expected financial performance, are also forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by such forward-looking statements. A discussion of the factors that could cause a material difference in the company's results compared to these forward-looking statements is contained in Limbach Holdings Inc.'s SEC filings, including reports on Form 10-K and 10-Q. Please note that on today's call, we will be referring to non-GAAP measures. You can find the reconciliation of these non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures in our second quarter 2025 earnings release and in our investor presentation, both of which can be found on Limbach Holdings Inc.'s Investor Relations website and have been furnished in the Form 8-K filed with the SEC. Speaker 400:02:22With that, I will now turn the call over to President and Chief Executive Officer, Michael McCann. Speaker 200:02:27Good morning and welcome, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. Limbach plays a critical role in ensuring the reliability of mission-critical infrastructure within our customers' buildings and facilities. Our expertise lies in optimizing and sustaining the performance of existing systems so they function flawlessly, especially when the stakes are high. As we've consistently noted before, our growth and expansion strategy is anchored by three key initiatives. Number one, scaling our ODR business organically as we become a trusted partner to our customers. Number two, driving profitability through enhanced product and service offerings. Number three, making strategic acquisitions that expand our market presence and brand. As we started our shift from GCR to ODR, ODR revenue as a percentage of total revenue has increased from 21% in the second quarter of 2019 to 76.6% in the second quarter of 2025. Speaker 200:03:22For the first half of 2025, ODR represented 72.4% of total revenue, which is in line with our 2025 guidance of between 70% and 80%. This strategy is driving margin expansion and earnings growth while also enhancing our risk profile. Over the past year, we began to implement this land and expand strategy, which we believe will fuel Limbach's next phase of growth. As a result of organic growth and strategic acquisitions over the past several years, we now have 21 locations and customers in 17 metropolitan service areas, or MSAs. This includes several national customers with multiple locations across different states and complex maintenance needs, given the mission-critical nature of their businesses. Our results continue to reflect the meaningful progress we've made in this transformation. Speaker 200:04:16Compared to the year-ago period, second quarter 2025 total revenue grew 16.4%, ODR revenue rose 31.7%, gross profit increased by 18.9%, and adjusted EBITDA grew 30%. Jeremy will go into more details on the financials shortly, but we're pleased with the strong, consistent momentum we've achieved over the past six years. Turning to the broader environment, we continue to navigate ongoing macroeconomic uncertainty, with performance varying across end markets. Operating primarily across six distinct verticals provides diversification that helps us mitigate volatility and reduces reliance on any single industry. Next, I'd like to provide a quick update of what we are currently seeing in some of the key verticals we serve. In healthcare, deferred maintenance is driving quick or emergency repair and replacement work. We are starting to have proactive discussions with customers to avoid emergencies. Speaker 200:05:17The goal is that even if some customers are reluctant to spend immediate dollars on short-term capital projects, we are helping them plan their spending for future years, and this gives us visibility into their future requirements. For industrial manufacturing customers, we are performing upgrades to existing manufacturing lines and providing labor for industrial shutdowns. These shutdowns are being performed as planned, and customers continue to invest in their facilities. In life science and higher education, we primarily support our customers by maintaining essential systems, upgrading critical infrastructure, and minimizing downtime, especially in mission-critical environments. In higher education, we are currently seeing the majority of our revenue in laboratory building environments. To support the ongoing expansion of ODR business, we've scaled our sales organization over the last year with the addition of 40 new salespeople, which primarily consist of onsite account managers. Speaker 200:06:12This marks a pivotal evolution in our go-to-market strategy and how we engage with customers, emphasizing a deeper understanding of the facilities and anticipating their operational needs. To support our expanding sales team, we recently hired Amy Dorset as Senior Vice President of Sales. Amy brings over 20 years of experience as a strategic, results-driven sales leader with expertise in business development and client relationship management. She has a proven track record of expanding business portfolios and strengthening existing relationships to drive sustainable growth. Her prior roles include sales leader positions for major OEMs including Honeywell, Crane, and Johnson Controls, while consistently delivering high-impact results. We're excited to welcome Amy to the Limbach team. Speaker 200:06:59This type of expertise will be instrumental in advancing our national account capture strategy and enhancing the capabilities of our existing sales staff, particularly in developing capital plans with building owners and driving proactive sales and training. Amy will also play a key role in supporting our vertical market focus. Our sales efforts are intentionally concentrated on existing customers that have complex, high-demand facilities that require ongoing system enhancements and continuous upkeep. We believe our current footprint represents just a fraction of the total opportunity within these environments. Importantly, our growth isn't dependent on new construction. It's driven by the recurring needs of longstanding customers. These relationships offer the greatest potential for organic growth, and our account teams are committed to strengthening them further through reliable service, proactive engagement, and high-impact solutions. Speaker 200:07:52One of our major initiatives for 2025 is strategically expanding from a reactive support model to a proactive partnership approach. Our goal is to play a more strategic role in shaping customer budgets ahead of the next planning cycle to turn OpEx spend or small, quick-hitting or emergency projects into proactive capital programs. We believe this evolution will not only deepen our customer relationships but also enhance visibility and predictability to our sales pipeline. Transitioning from an OpEx-type spend to a capital program isn't immediate and can take typically 6 to 12 months. It could require a facility assessment, energy benchmarking, and/or asset spend analysis. Additionally, these capital programs are typically sold to the C-suite or VP level within an organization as part of an overall budget, as opposed to OpEx spend, which is sold at the facility manager level based on existing budget. Speaker 200:08:47Our approach is to have a local and/or national account exec working with the onsite account managers to develop the program, deliver this financial sale to the customer. With Amy's executive presence and sales expertise, we are confident in our ability to help coach our sales team to turn a technical sale into a financial sale. As an example, we were recently hired by a national healthcare owner to perform energy and facility assessments for over 20 different properties. Our sales team will conduct the assessments and then present capital project solutions that help build this customer's long-term spending program. Projects won't be immediate, but this important work should set up for several years of spend that will be more predictable than OpEx reactive spend. Speaker 200:09:30The second element of our growth strategy focuses on broadening our service portfolio to position Limbach as a one-stop shop for building owners to capture rising customer demand and tap into higher margin opportunities. Last quarter, we invested approximately $2 million to expand our climate control rental fleet, positioning ourselves to meet seasonal demand as temperatures climb. This initiative represents a growth opportunity and highlights our commitment to evolving beyond conventional service lines. We continue to make investments to drive ODR revenue growth and increase our value to these customers. Offerings such as digital solutions that manage and monitor the performance of building systems, including data analytics, energy consumption, and sustainability, will allow us to develop new revenue streams, leverage our professional service capabilities to support multi-location regional and national customers in core end markets, and drive energy retrofit and performance optimization for building owners. Speaker 200:10:28The third part of our strategy is M&A. We remained active. In July, we completed our largest acquisition to date with the addition of Pioneer Power. As a reminder, Pioneer provides industrial and institutional mechanical solutions to the healthcare, food, power, utility, oil refining, and other verticals in the Greater Twin Cities region and the Upper Midwest. This transaction directly aligned with our discipline acquisition criteria. Pioneer brings specialized expertise in our core verticals, and the majority of their business is already focused on working directly with building owners. Additionally, Pioneer expands our footprint in the core Midwest and extends our reach into a new geographic market in the Upper Midwest, bringing our MSAs to 17. Its technical capabilities and service offerings complement ours, and we see strong cultural compatibility between our teams. We are excited to welcome Pioneer's approximate 300 colleagues to our family. Speaker 200:11:26The integration process is well underway in terms of systems and operational processes, and our teams are already working together. Since going public in 2016, we have completed six highly selective acquisitions, each the result of discipline diligence and strategic fit analysis, and have continuously fine-tuned our integration process with every transaction. Behind those six deals are dozens of opportunities that we have deliberately passed on, whether due to valuation, limited strategic alignment, or concerns around cultural fit. Our proven integration playbook unfolds in two distinct phases. Phase one focuses on system integration, driving fixed cost reduction, and leveraging a unified organizational structure and common platform. In addition, we apply gross profit benchmarking and implement robust risk management tools in an effort to ensure operational efficiency and financial discipline. This is typically a one to two-year process. Speaker 200:12:24During phase two, we establish targeted account strategies, deploy onsite account managers, and introduce evolved Limbach's offerings. We also complete the full build-out of dedicated account teams to deepen customer engagement. The duration of phase two can take between two to four years. Through these ever-evolving value creation actions, our goal is to enhance Pioneer's performance and eventually bring its margins in line with ours, ultimately creating additional stockholder value by acquiring a scalable business and an attractive multiple. We are prioritizing the successful integration of Pioneer while we continue to build and monitor an active M&A pipeline for the future. Overall, our acquisition strategy is grounded in a thoughtful and methodical approach, targeting high-quality companies that align with our values and we care culture, that are committed to building long-term relationships with building owners and delivering essential solutions. This strategy has yielded meaningful results for us. Speaker 200:13:22At the same time, we've worked to build the Limbach brand in the market as a trustworthy and principled partner. Our goal is to become the first choice for distinguished enterprises looking to join a bigger platform. With a strong pipeline of opportunities, we expect strategic M&A will continue to play an important role in our growth strategy. I would now like to turn to guidance, where we have revised our 2025 outlook. For the full year, we anticipate generating between $650 million and $680 million in revenue, with adjusted EBITDA projected in the range of $80 million to $86 million. While integration efforts remain on track with Pioneer, this represents the largest acquisition in our history as a public company. We are approaching our initial projections with a conservative measured outlook. Speaker 200:14:03As we gain greater visibility over the coming months, as we work through phase one of the integration of Pioneer, we expect to provide an update on the next quarterly call. Additionally, revenue-adjusted EBITDA contributions for the company are not expected to be evenly distributed between the third and fourth quarters, as we anticipate a heavier weighting towards Q4. In summary, we are gaining strong momentum and remain committed to creating long-term value for building owners by fostering enduring relationships and becoming an indispensable partner in managing their mission-critical systems. Once again, by operating in 17 MSAs and six independent verticals, we ensure there's no single market that defines our trajectory. This structure enables us to absorb location or sector-specific fluctuations while sustaining consistent performance across cycles. For the balance of 2025, our key priorities are threefold. First, drive top-line revenue growth. Speaker 200:14:57Second, expand relationships through evolved solutions, which requires training up the sales force to evolve a technical sale into a financial sale. Number three, continue the execution of phase one of the Pioneer integration and building our acquisition pipeline. Now I'll turn it over to Jeremy to walk through the financials. Speaker 100:15:16Thank you, Mike. Our Form 10-Q and earnings press release filed yesterday provides comprehensive details of our financial results, so I will focus on the highlights of the second quarter. All comparisons are second quarter 2025 versus second quarter 2024, unless otherwise noted. In the second quarter, we generated total revenue of $142.2 million compared to $122.2 million in 2024. Total revenue growth was 16.4%, while ODR revenue grew 31.7% to a quarterly record of $108.9 million, and GCR revenue declined 15.7%. As we have said before, the GCR revenue decline is intentional as we execute our mixed-shift strategy towards ODR. ODR revenue accounted for 76.6% of total revenue for the second quarter, up from 67.7% in Q2 2024. Total gross profit for the quarter increased 18.9% from $33.5 million to $39.8 million, reflecting the ongoing growth of our ODR segment. Speaker 100:16:28Total gross margin on a consolidated basis for the quarter was 28%, up from 27.4% in 2024, driven by the combination of higher margin ODR revenue and higher quality GCR projects. ODR gross profit comprised 79.3% of the total gross profit dollars, or a quarterly record of $31.6 million. ODR gross profit increased $6.2 million, or 24.6%, driven by higher revenue, despite lower ODR segment margins of 29% compared to 30.6%, resulting from certain ODR-related project write-ups recognized in the period last year that did not recur in the current period. GCR gross profit increased $0.1 million, or 1.1%, due to higher margins of 24.7% compared to 20.6%, driven by our focus on higher quality projects despite lower revenue. SG&A expense for the second quarter was $26.6 million, an increase of approximately $3.5 million from $23.2 million. Speaker 100:17:40This increase includes the addition of the 40 new salespeople Mike mentioned earlier and SG&A associated with Kent Island Mechanical and Consolidated Mechanical that were not part of the company during the second quarter of 2024. As a percentage of revenue, SG&A expense was 18.7%, down from 19% in the same period last year. We continue to currently expect SG&A for 2025 to be in the target range of 18% to 19% of revenue due to our ongoing investment in growing the ODR business. Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was $17.9 million, up 30% from $13.8 million in Q2 2024. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 12.6% compared to 11.3% in Q2 last year. Net income for the quarter increased 30.2% from $6 million to $7.8 million, and earnings per diluted share grew 28% from $0.50 to $0.64. Speaker 100:18:43Adjusted net income grew 29% from $8.7 million to $11.3 million, and adjusted earnings per diluted share grew 27.2% from $0.73 to $0.93. Turning to cash flow, our operating cash inflow during the second quarter was $2 million compared to $16.5 million during the second quarter last year, primarily due to the timing of billings that impacted changes in working capital. Free cash flow, defined as cash flow from operating activities less changes in working capital and capital expenditures, excluding our investment in additional rental equipment, was $16.1 million in the second quarter compared to $10.9 million in Q2 last year, representing a $5.2 million increase. The free cash flow conversion of adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was 89.7% versus 78.7%. Speaker 100:19:43For full year 2025, we currently continue to target a free cash flow conversion rate of at least 75% and expect CapEx to have a run rate of approximately $4 million, primarily due to the acceleration of our ODR strategy. This amount excludes an additional investment of $3.5 million in rental equipment for 2025, of which $2.1 million occurred in the first half of the year. Turning to our balance sheet, as of June 30, we had $38.9 million in cash and cash equivalents and total debt of $33.2 million, which includes $10 million borrowed on our revolving credit facility at a hedge rate of 5.37%. At the end of June, we expanded our revolving credit facility from $50 million to $100 million and utilized our expanded credit facility as part of the Pioneer acquisition on July 1. Speaker 100:20:39With the expanded facility and our expected cash generation from the business, we believe our balance sheet remains strong, and we believe we are well positioned to support our continued organic growth initiatives and strategic M&A transactions. That concludes our prepared remarks. I'll now ask the operators to begin Q&A. Speaker 500:21:00Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now be conducting a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star and one on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star and two if you would like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. Ladies and gentlemen, we will wait for a moment while we poll for questions. Our first question comes from Chris Moore with CJS Securities. Please go ahead. Operator00:21:47Hey, good morning guys. Thanks for taking a couple. Maybe we can start with gross margins. Specifically on the GCR side, I think 24.7% last two quarters. I was modeling a pretty good decline moving forward. I know you've got higher quality projects. I just wonder how we should be thinking about them this year and next year, kind of ultimately what's a normalized level there? Speaker 200:22:19Yeah, just from a high-level perspective, we've been really focused, like you said, on the quality to make sure that whatever work that gets sold from a GCR perspective, those opportunities are vetted. They make sense for the overall business as well too. Proper risk management, a lot of stuff that we've learned over the years as well too. That's part of obviously from a margin perspective. Jeremy, do you want to touch upon long-term? Operator00:22:42Yeah, I mean, as. Speaker 200:22:43Gross for the year? Operator00:22:44If you look back over the past year, it'll ebb and flow by each quarter. From a long-term perspective, we really only guide to the total revenue as a gross profit line of being that 28% to 29% for 2025. You'll just see it ebb and flow based on how the project burned in each quarter. Speaker 200:23:07Got it. I appreciate that. Maybe staying with that theme for a second, Pioneer now being in the mix, fair to say that the, I don't think you've broken out the ODR versus GCR. I think they're both significant. The gross margins contribution from Pioneer, at least for the next few quarters, would be diluted to gross margins overall. Operator00:23:35Yes, the Pioneer definitely, that's how we do our value creation, is adding, you know, going in and being able to increase those gross margins. Yes, compared to where we're at, you could expect that in the short term as we're going through our integration process and then rolling out our strategy. Speaker 200:23:55Hey, Chris, I think we're really, obviously we're in our first, a little bit more than 30 days at this point. We're really focused on that phase one integration piece, which goes into getting our systems in place, gross profit benchmarking, getting everybody on that first standard platform as well. We're taking a real measured approach from that perspective and applying all of our lessons learned as well. Every time we do a deal, we continue to tweak and learn from them and think about from that value creation process. That's definitely the stage that we're at with Pioneer Power right now. Operator00:24:29Perfect. Maybe I'll sneak just one last one, more big picture. Mike, you walked through the verticals, obviously healthcare, key driver, industrial manufacturing, and I think Pioneer brings much there. Is there one vertical, you know, that has a chance to become much more important beyond those two over the next two to three years? Speaker 200:24:51Yeah, I mean, we've learned that it's even within these verticals, it's got to be mission-critical. I think that's almost like when I think about what the expansion beyond, you know, we're really focused on these six. It's really the mission-criticality nature of it. We've really taken a super measured approach from that perspective. Healthcare is important from every single, from a marketplace perspective. I would also say as we continue to kind of look forward to future acquisitions, Pioneer provides us from a manufacturer industrial. I think as we look for different acquisitions, whether in the Midwest or Southeast, they're going to give us some additional exposure from a footprint, from a vertical market perspective. Definitely the mission-criticality nature of working with customers. A lot of our big push right now is trying to transition, you know, that short-term OpEx spend into long-term capital programs. Speaker 200:25:47That's going to really allow us to have a lot of visibility going forward. I think that's really going to be across, you know, all six verticals, but those three that I mentioned in the prepared marks are really our focus. Operator00:25:57Got it. I appreciate it. I'll jump back in line. Speaker 200:26:00Thanks, Chris. Speaker 500:26:03Thank you. Our next question comes from Rob Brown with Lake Street Capital. Please go ahead. Speaker 500:26:11Good morning. I just wanted to get your sense on the demand environment, how it's trending, and where you're seeing some of the strength in the business. Speaker 200:26:24Yeah, so maybe just to kind of look back from a vertical market perspective, you know, our model, and I think we've learned this more and more, is really about employing proactive sales. There's, you know, we're working with customers that have to spend money. They have to repair. Getting them to think not just reactive, but proactive, I think that's one thing that we are really super focused on. You think about it from a healthcare perspective, they have to make the repair. Discussing with them, setting up from a capital program perspective, that's something that we really have to work with. Just an example that we gave in prepared remarks was we had a national healthcare customer that we're doing assessments on about 20 locations. This is when I think the combination of a local relationship turns into a national relationship and really expands from a capital program. Speaker 200:27:23That's 20 different locations across our footprint and nationally that allows us to have access in the future. So much of our strategy really relies on short-term actions turning into long-term demand. Those types of relationships, I think, are really going to allow us to really capitalize on that and to have a sustainable, long-term revenue source from these customers. Speaker 200:27:53Okay, great. Thank you. On the GCR kind of declines, I know that's been part of your strategy, but going forward, do you continue to see that business declining, or does that level off at some point and really maintain at this level? Speaker 200:28:10This year we're guiding to our 70 to 80% ODR, which obviously is 20 to 30% GCR. We're really pushing the business to go to the higher margin owner-direct business. Like anything, a lot of our locations, they're all in a different journey. As we bring in acquisitions, they may have a component of GCR as well. Our goal is always to push towards owner-direct, but depending on future acquisitions and the stage of the business, that will kind of ebb and flow a little bit. The focus has not changed and will not change to push towards owner-direct. Speaker 200:28:49Okay, great. Thank you. I'll turn it over. Speaker 500:28:53Thank you. Our next question comes from Brian Brophy with Stifel. Please go ahead. Speaker 500:29:00Yeah, thanks. Good morning, everybody. Just a quick question on the guidance. Does the change only reflect the contribution from Pioneer Power, or was the organic, kind of base number tweaked a little bit lower here as well? If so, what drove the organic change? Thanks. Speaker 200:29:20Yeah, so from the guidance perspective, a lot of this has to do from a Pioneer Power. You know, it's our largest acquisition as a public company, so we want to make sure the initial projections are conservative and from a measured perspective. I think as we go from kind of continue from a phase one perspective, and kind of the steps that I talked about before, we're going to kind of take a look at that as we go forward. Speaker 200:29:47Okay. On the ODR backlog, it fell a little bit sequentially here. Is there anything to call out as notable drivers? Just curious if you're seeing any sort of change in the demand environment or if this is more of just kind of a timing issue on the backlog. Thanks. Speaker 200:30:07Yeah, no, I think it's really timing-based. I think we have the backlog as a component of it. It's not the only component because we get into burning work. It could be time and material work that goes very quickly through. I think what we're seeing is, again, I feel like it's our ability with customers that have to spend. That doesn't mean that it automatically translates to revenue from us, from our perspective. I definitely think from a sales perspective, we're continuing to learn. One thing too that, from our team, we've recently hired our Senior Vice President of Sales, Amy Dorset. I think our ability to translate OpEx into CapEx, this hire has been a long time coming, but I think that's going to be something that's really pivotal from a go-to-market perspective as well, using her expertise from various OEMs and to add a different element. Speaker 200:31:03I think a lot of times with customers, it's translating that technical type sale into a financial sale that involves return on investment type calculations. It's almost like a different language for our sales team. I think that's going to be a big thing as we go to 2026 and 2027, looking ahead from a sales perspective. Speaker 200:31:23Okay. You touched on some of this already, but in regards to some of the sales folks you've hired over the past couple of quarters, particularly the onsite account managers, I'm just curious how that ramp-up is going relative to expectations in terms of their contribution. Speaker 200:31:41Yeah, I think anytime we bring somebody on, there's always a ramp-up time. Occasionally, we'll be in a situation where we'll have somebody that perfectly aligns up where they're an account, it's ready to go. I think as we learn going forward, we hope that that ramp-up time shortens. From what we've seen, I think relatively from an expectation perspective, the hires that we make to kind of get those true contributions, it takes a decent amount of time. It's almost like you're making hires for really full-year contributions for the following year. We've done that the last three years and made a real big investment from a sales perspective. As those accounts mature, as those salespeople mature in their experience level with the company, that's going to lead to a better return. I think also it'll help us from a ramp-up period. Speaker 200:32:30Generally, they performed where we thought they were going to perform. Speaker 200:32:36Very helpful. I'll pass it on. Thank you. Speaker 200:32:39Thanks. Speaker 500:32:41Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, as there are no further questions, I would now like to hand the conference over to Michael McCann for closing comments. Speaker 200:32:51Thank you for listening today and for your continued interest in Limbach. We look forward to connecting with many of you soon. Coming up in September, we are attending the Lake Street Big Nine Conference in New York and the D.A. Davidson Diversified Industrials and Service Conference in Nashville. Have a great rest of your day. Speaker 500:33:09Thank you. This concludes today's teleconference. You may disconnect your lines at this time. Thank you for your participation.Read morePowered by Earnings DocumentsSlide DeckPress Release(8-K)Quarterly report(10-Q) Limbach Q2 2025 Earnings FAQ Did Limbach beat earnings estimates for Q2 2025? Limbach (NASDAQ:LMB) reported earnings of $0.93 per share for Q2 2025, beating the consensus estimate of $0.81. The report was announced on Tuesday, August 5, 2025. What was Limbach's revenue for Q2 2025? Limbach reported revenue of $142.24 million for Q2 2025, against a consensus estimate of $144.21 million. Where can I read Limbach's Q2 2025 earnings call transcript? The full Limbach Q2 2025 earnings conference call transcript is published on this page, including prepared remarks and the analyst Q&A session, along with the participants who spoke on the call. When is Limbach's next earnings date? Limbach's next earnings date is estimated for Tuesday, November 3, 2026. 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There are 6 speakers on the call. Speaker 500:00:00Good morning and welcome to the second quarter 2025 Limbach Holdings Inc. earnings conference call and webcast. All participants will be in the listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. I will now turn the conference over to your host, Lisa Fortuna, of Financial Profiles. You may begin. Speaker 400:00:25Good morning and thank you for joining us today to discuss Limbach Holdings Inc.'s financial results for the second quarter of 2025. Yesterday, Limbach Holdings Inc. issued its earnings release and filed its Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2025. Both documents, as well as an updated investor presentation, are available on the Investor Relations section of the company's website at www.limbachinc.com. Management may refer to select slides during today's call and encourages investors to review the presentation in its entirety. On today's call are Michael McCann, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Jeremy Hellman, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. We will begin with prepared remarks and then open the call to questions. Before we begin, I would like to remind you that today's comments will include forward-looking statements under federal securities laws. Speaker 400:01:22Forward-looking statements are identified by words such as "will," "be," "intend," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," or other comparable words or phrases. Statements that are not historical facts, such as those about expected financial performance, are also forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by such forward-looking statements. A discussion of the factors that could cause a material difference in the company's results compared to these forward-looking statements is contained in Limbach Holdings Inc.'s SEC filings, including reports on Form 10-K and 10-Q. Please note that on today's call, we will be referring to non-GAAP measures. You can find the reconciliation of these non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures in our second quarter 2025 earnings release and in our investor presentation, both of which can be found on Limbach Holdings Inc.'s Investor Relations website and have been furnished in the Form 8-K filed with the SEC. Speaker 400:02:22With that, I will now turn the call over to President and Chief Executive Officer, Michael McCann. Speaker 200:02:27Good morning and welcome, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. Limbach plays a critical role in ensuring the reliability of mission-critical infrastructure within our customers' buildings and facilities. Our expertise lies in optimizing and sustaining the performance of existing systems so they function flawlessly, especially when the stakes are high. As we've consistently noted before, our growth and expansion strategy is anchored by three key initiatives. Number one, scaling our ODR business organically as we become a trusted partner to our customers. Number two, driving profitability through enhanced product and service offerings. Number three, making strategic acquisitions that expand our market presence and brand. As we started our shift from GCR to ODR, ODR revenue as a percentage of total revenue has increased from 21% in the second quarter of 2019 to 76.6% in the second quarter of 2025. Speaker 200:03:22For the first half of 2025, ODR represented 72.4% of total revenue, which is in line with our 2025 guidance of between 70% and 80%. This strategy is driving margin expansion and earnings growth while also enhancing our risk profile. Over the past year, we began to implement this land and expand strategy, which we believe will fuel Limbach's next phase of growth. As a result of organic growth and strategic acquisitions over the past several years, we now have 21 locations and customers in 17 metropolitan service areas, or MSAs. This includes several national customers with multiple locations across different states and complex maintenance needs, given the mission-critical nature of their businesses. Our results continue to reflect the meaningful progress we've made in this transformation. Speaker 200:04:16Compared to the year-ago period, second quarter 2025 total revenue grew 16.4%, ODR revenue rose 31.7%, gross profit increased by 18.9%, and adjusted EBITDA grew 30%. Jeremy will go into more details on the financials shortly, but we're pleased with the strong, consistent momentum we've achieved over the past six years. Turning to the broader environment, we continue to navigate ongoing macroeconomic uncertainty, with performance varying across end markets. Operating primarily across six distinct verticals provides diversification that helps us mitigate volatility and reduces reliance on any single industry. Next, I'd like to provide a quick update of what we are currently seeing in some of the key verticals we serve. In healthcare, deferred maintenance is driving quick or emergency repair and replacement work. We are starting to have proactive discussions with customers to avoid emergencies. Speaker 200:05:17The goal is that even if some customers are reluctant to spend immediate dollars on short-term capital projects, we are helping them plan their spending for future years, and this gives us visibility into their future requirements. For industrial manufacturing customers, we are performing upgrades to existing manufacturing lines and providing labor for industrial shutdowns. These shutdowns are being performed as planned, and customers continue to invest in their facilities. In life science and higher education, we primarily support our customers by maintaining essential systems, upgrading critical infrastructure, and minimizing downtime, especially in mission-critical environments. In higher education, we are currently seeing the majority of our revenue in laboratory building environments. To support the ongoing expansion of ODR business, we've scaled our sales organization over the last year with the addition of 40 new salespeople, which primarily consist of onsite account managers. Speaker 200:06:12This marks a pivotal evolution in our go-to-market strategy and how we engage with customers, emphasizing a deeper understanding of the facilities and anticipating their operational needs. To support our expanding sales team, we recently hired Amy Dorset as Senior Vice President of Sales. Amy brings over 20 years of experience as a strategic, results-driven sales leader with expertise in business development and client relationship management. She has a proven track record of expanding business portfolios and strengthening existing relationships to drive sustainable growth. Her prior roles include sales leader positions for major OEMs including Honeywell, Crane, and Johnson Controls, while consistently delivering high-impact results. We're excited to welcome Amy to the Limbach team. Speaker 200:06:59This type of expertise will be instrumental in advancing our national account capture strategy and enhancing the capabilities of our existing sales staff, particularly in developing capital plans with building owners and driving proactive sales and training. Amy will also play a key role in supporting our vertical market focus. Our sales efforts are intentionally concentrated on existing customers that have complex, high-demand facilities that require ongoing system enhancements and continuous upkeep. We believe our current footprint represents just a fraction of the total opportunity within these environments. Importantly, our growth isn't dependent on new construction. It's driven by the recurring needs of longstanding customers. These relationships offer the greatest potential for organic growth, and our account teams are committed to strengthening them further through reliable service, proactive engagement, and high-impact solutions. Speaker 200:07:52One of our major initiatives for 2025 is strategically expanding from a reactive support model to a proactive partnership approach. Our goal is to play a more strategic role in shaping customer budgets ahead of the next planning cycle to turn OpEx spend or small, quick-hitting or emergency projects into proactive capital programs. We believe this evolution will not only deepen our customer relationships but also enhance visibility and predictability to our sales pipeline. Transitioning from an OpEx-type spend to a capital program isn't immediate and can take typically 6 to 12 months. It could require a facility assessment, energy benchmarking, and/or asset spend analysis. Additionally, these capital programs are typically sold to the C-suite or VP level within an organization as part of an overall budget, as opposed to OpEx spend, which is sold at the facility manager level based on existing budget. Speaker 200:08:47Our approach is to have a local and/or national account exec working with the onsite account managers to develop the program, deliver this financial sale to the customer. With Amy's executive presence and sales expertise, we are confident in our ability to help coach our sales team to turn a technical sale into a financial sale. As an example, we were recently hired by a national healthcare owner to perform energy and facility assessments for over 20 different properties. Our sales team will conduct the assessments and then present capital project solutions that help build this customer's long-term spending program. Projects won't be immediate, but this important work should set up for several years of spend that will be more predictable than OpEx reactive spend. Speaker 200:09:30The second element of our growth strategy focuses on broadening our service portfolio to position Limbach as a one-stop shop for building owners to capture rising customer demand and tap into higher margin opportunities. Last quarter, we invested approximately $2 million to expand our climate control rental fleet, positioning ourselves to meet seasonal demand as temperatures climb. This initiative represents a growth opportunity and highlights our commitment to evolving beyond conventional service lines. We continue to make investments to drive ODR revenue growth and increase our value to these customers. Offerings such as digital solutions that manage and monitor the performance of building systems, including data analytics, energy consumption, and sustainability, will allow us to develop new revenue streams, leverage our professional service capabilities to support multi-location regional and national customers in core end markets, and drive energy retrofit and performance optimization for building owners. Speaker 200:10:28The third part of our strategy is M&A. We remained active. In July, we completed our largest acquisition to date with the addition of Pioneer Power. As a reminder, Pioneer provides industrial and institutional mechanical solutions to the healthcare, food, power, utility, oil refining, and other verticals in the Greater Twin Cities region and the Upper Midwest. This transaction directly aligned with our discipline acquisition criteria. Pioneer brings specialized expertise in our core verticals, and the majority of their business is already focused on working directly with building owners. Additionally, Pioneer expands our footprint in the core Midwest and extends our reach into a new geographic market in the Upper Midwest, bringing our MSAs to 17. Its technical capabilities and service offerings complement ours, and we see strong cultural compatibility between our teams. We are excited to welcome Pioneer's approximate 300 colleagues to our family. Speaker 200:11:26The integration process is well underway in terms of systems and operational processes, and our teams are already working together. Since going public in 2016, we have completed six highly selective acquisitions, each the result of discipline diligence and strategic fit analysis, and have continuously fine-tuned our integration process with every transaction. Behind those six deals are dozens of opportunities that we have deliberately passed on, whether due to valuation, limited strategic alignment, or concerns around cultural fit. Our proven integration playbook unfolds in two distinct phases. Phase one focuses on system integration, driving fixed cost reduction, and leveraging a unified organizational structure and common platform. In addition, we apply gross profit benchmarking and implement robust risk management tools in an effort to ensure operational efficiency and financial discipline. This is typically a one to two-year process. Speaker 200:12:24During phase two, we establish targeted account strategies, deploy onsite account managers, and introduce evolved Limbach's offerings. We also complete the full build-out of dedicated account teams to deepen customer engagement. The duration of phase two can take between two to four years. Through these ever-evolving value creation actions, our goal is to enhance Pioneer's performance and eventually bring its margins in line with ours, ultimately creating additional stockholder value by acquiring a scalable business and an attractive multiple. We are prioritizing the successful integration of Pioneer while we continue to build and monitor an active M&A pipeline for the future. Overall, our acquisition strategy is grounded in a thoughtful and methodical approach, targeting high-quality companies that align with our values and we care culture, that are committed to building long-term relationships with building owners and delivering essential solutions. This strategy has yielded meaningful results for us. Speaker 200:13:22At the same time, we've worked to build the Limbach brand in the market as a trustworthy and principled partner. Our goal is to become the first choice for distinguished enterprises looking to join a bigger platform. With a strong pipeline of opportunities, we expect strategic M&A will continue to play an important role in our growth strategy. I would now like to turn to guidance, where we have revised our 2025 outlook. For the full year, we anticipate generating between $650 million and $680 million in revenue, with adjusted EBITDA projected in the range of $80 million to $86 million. While integration efforts remain on track with Pioneer, this represents the largest acquisition in our history as a public company. We are approaching our initial projections with a conservative measured outlook. Speaker 200:14:03As we gain greater visibility over the coming months, as we work through phase one of the integration of Pioneer, we expect to provide an update on the next quarterly call. Additionally, revenue-adjusted EBITDA contributions for the company are not expected to be evenly distributed between the third and fourth quarters, as we anticipate a heavier weighting towards Q4. In summary, we are gaining strong momentum and remain committed to creating long-term value for building owners by fostering enduring relationships and becoming an indispensable partner in managing their mission-critical systems. Once again, by operating in 17 MSAs and six independent verticals, we ensure there's no single market that defines our trajectory. This structure enables us to absorb location or sector-specific fluctuations while sustaining consistent performance across cycles. For the balance of 2025, our key priorities are threefold. First, drive top-line revenue growth. Speaker 200:14:57Second, expand relationships through evolved solutions, which requires training up the sales force to evolve a technical sale into a financial sale. Number three, continue the execution of phase one of the Pioneer integration and building our acquisition pipeline. Now I'll turn it over to Jeremy to walk through the financials. Speaker 100:15:16Thank you, Mike. Our Form 10-Q and earnings press release filed yesterday provides comprehensive details of our financial results, so I will focus on the highlights of the second quarter. All comparisons are second quarter 2025 versus second quarter 2024, unless otherwise noted. In the second quarter, we generated total revenue of $142.2 million compared to $122.2 million in 2024. Total revenue growth was 16.4%, while ODR revenue grew 31.7% to a quarterly record of $108.9 million, and GCR revenue declined 15.7%. As we have said before, the GCR revenue decline is intentional as we execute our mixed-shift strategy towards ODR. ODR revenue accounted for 76.6% of total revenue for the second quarter, up from 67.7% in Q2 2024. Total gross profit for the quarter increased 18.9% from $33.5 million to $39.8 million, reflecting the ongoing growth of our ODR segment. Speaker 100:16:28Total gross margin on a consolidated basis for the quarter was 28%, up from 27.4% in 2024, driven by the combination of higher margin ODR revenue and higher quality GCR projects. ODR gross profit comprised 79.3% of the total gross profit dollars, or a quarterly record of $31.6 million. ODR gross profit increased $6.2 million, or 24.6%, driven by higher revenue, despite lower ODR segment margins of 29% compared to 30.6%, resulting from certain ODR-related project write-ups recognized in the period last year that did not recur in the current period. GCR gross profit increased $0.1 million, or 1.1%, due to higher margins of 24.7% compared to 20.6%, driven by our focus on higher quality projects despite lower revenue. SG&A expense for the second quarter was $26.6 million, an increase of approximately $3.5 million from $23.2 million. Speaker 100:17:40This increase includes the addition of the 40 new salespeople Mike mentioned earlier and SG&A associated with Kent Island Mechanical and Consolidated Mechanical that were not part of the company during the second quarter of 2024. As a percentage of revenue, SG&A expense was 18.7%, down from 19% in the same period last year. We continue to currently expect SG&A for 2025 to be in the target range of 18% to 19% of revenue due to our ongoing investment in growing the ODR business. Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was $17.9 million, up 30% from $13.8 million in Q2 2024. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 12.6% compared to 11.3% in Q2 last year. Net income for the quarter increased 30.2% from $6 million to $7.8 million, and earnings per diluted share grew 28% from $0.50 to $0.64. Speaker 100:18:43Adjusted net income grew 29% from $8.7 million to $11.3 million, and adjusted earnings per diluted share grew 27.2% from $0.73 to $0.93. Turning to cash flow, our operating cash inflow during the second quarter was $2 million compared to $16.5 million during the second quarter last year, primarily due to the timing of billings that impacted changes in working capital. Free cash flow, defined as cash flow from operating activities less changes in working capital and capital expenditures, excluding our investment in additional rental equipment, was $16.1 million in the second quarter compared to $10.9 million in Q2 last year, representing a $5.2 million increase. The free cash flow conversion of adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was 89.7% versus 78.7%. Speaker 100:19:43For full year 2025, we currently continue to target a free cash flow conversion rate of at least 75% and expect CapEx to have a run rate of approximately $4 million, primarily due to the acceleration of our ODR strategy. This amount excludes an additional investment of $3.5 million in rental equipment for 2025, of which $2.1 million occurred in the first half of the year. Turning to our balance sheet, as of June 30, we had $38.9 million in cash and cash equivalents and total debt of $33.2 million, which includes $10 million borrowed on our revolving credit facility at a hedge rate of 5.37%. At the end of June, we expanded our revolving credit facility from $50 million to $100 million and utilized our expanded credit facility as part of the Pioneer acquisition on July 1. Speaker 100:20:39With the expanded facility and our expected cash generation from the business, we believe our balance sheet remains strong, and we believe we are well positioned to support our continued organic growth initiatives and strategic M&A transactions. That concludes our prepared remarks. I'll now ask the operators to begin Q&A. Speaker 500:21:00Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now be conducting a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star and one on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star and two if you would like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. Ladies and gentlemen, we will wait for a moment while we poll for questions. Our first question comes from Chris Moore with CJS Securities. Please go ahead. Operator00:21:47Hey, good morning guys. Thanks for taking a couple. Maybe we can start with gross margins. Specifically on the GCR side, I think 24.7% last two quarters. I was modeling a pretty good decline moving forward. I know you've got higher quality projects. I just wonder how we should be thinking about them this year and next year, kind of ultimately what's a normalized level there? Speaker 200:22:19Yeah, just from a high-level perspective, we've been really focused, like you said, on the quality to make sure that whatever work that gets sold from a GCR perspective, those opportunities are vetted. They make sense for the overall business as well too. Proper risk management, a lot of stuff that we've learned over the years as well too. That's part of obviously from a margin perspective. Jeremy, do you want to touch upon long-term? Operator00:22:42Yeah, I mean, as. Speaker 200:22:43Gross for the year? Operator00:22:44If you look back over the past year, it'll ebb and flow by each quarter. From a long-term perspective, we really only guide to the total revenue as a gross profit line of being that 28% to 29% for 2025. You'll just see it ebb and flow based on how the project burned in each quarter. Speaker 200:23:07Got it. I appreciate that. Maybe staying with that theme for a second, Pioneer now being in the mix, fair to say that the, I don't think you've broken out the ODR versus GCR. I think they're both significant. The gross margins contribution from Pioneer, at least for the next few quarters, would be diluted to gross margins overall. Operator00:23:35Yes, the Pioneer definitely, that's how we do our value creation, is adding, you know, going in and being able to increase those gross margins. Yes, compared to where we're at, you could expect that in the short term as we're going through our integration process and then rolling out our strategy. Speaker 200:23:55Hey, Chris, I think we're really, obviously we're in our first, a little bit more than 30 days at this point. We're really focused on that phase one integration piece, which goes into getting our systems in place, gross profit benchmarking, getting everybody on that first standard platform as well. We're taking a real measured approach from that perspective and applying all of our lessons learned as well. Every time we do a deal, we continue to tweak and learn from them and think about from that value creation process. That's definitely the stage that we're at with Pioneer Power right now. Operator00:24:29Perfect. Maybe I'll sneak just one last one, more big picture. Mike, you walked through the verticals, obviously healthcare, key driver, industrial manufacturing, and I think Pioneer brings much there. Is there one vertical, you know, that has a chance to become much more important beyond those two over the next two to three years? Speaker 200:24:51Yeah, I mean, we've learned that it's even within these verticals, it's got to be mission-critical. I think that's almost like when I think about what the expansion beyond, you know, we're really focused on these six. It's really the mission-criticality nature of it. We've really taken a super measured approach from that perspective. Healthcare is important from every single, from a marketplace perspective. I would also say as we continue to kind of look forward to future acquisitions, Pioneer provides us from a manufacturer industrial. I think as we look for different acquisitions, whether in the Midwest or Southeast, they're going to give us some additional exposure from a footprint, from a vertical market perspective. Definitely the mission-criticality nature of working with customers. A lot of our big push right now is trying to transition, you know, that short-term OpEx spend into long-term capital programs. Speaker 200:25:47That's going to really allow us to have a lot of visibility going forward. I think that's really going to be across, you know, all six verticals, but those three that I mentioned in the prepared marks are really our focus. Operator00:25:57Got it. I appreciate it. I'll jump back in line. Speaker 200:26:00Thanks, Chris. Speaker 500:26:03Thank you. Our next question comes from Rob Brown with Lake Street Capital. Please go ahead. Speaker 500:26:11Good morning. I just wanted to get your sense on the demand environment, how it's trending, and where you're seeing some of the strength in the business. Speaker 200:26:24Yeah, so maybe just to kind of look back from a vertical market perspective, you know, our model, and I think we've learned this more and more, is really about employing proactive sales. There's, you know, we're working with customers that have to spend money. They have to repair. Getting them to think not just reactive, but proactive, I think that's one thing that we are really super focused on. You think about it from a healthcare perspective, they have to make the repair. Discussing with them, setting up from a capital program perspective, that's something that we really have to work with. Just an example that we gave in prepared remarks was we had a national healthcare customer that we're doing assessments on about 20 locations. This is when I think the combination of a local relationship turns into a national relationship and really expands from a capital program. Speaker 200:27:23That's 20 different locations across our footprint and nationally that allows us to have access in the future. So much of our strategy really relies on short-term actions turning into long-term demand. Those types of relationships, I think, are really going to allow us to really capitalize on that and to have a sustainable, long-term revenue source from these customers. Speaker 200:27:53Okay, great. Thank you. On the GCR kind of declines, I know that's been part of your strategy, but going forward, do you continue to see that business declining, or does that level off at some point and really maintain at this level? Speaker 200:28:10This year we're guiding to our 70 to 80% ODR, which obviously is 20 to 30% GCR. We're really pushing the business to go to the higher margin owner-direct business. Like anything, a lot of our locations, they're all in a different journey. As we bring in acquisitions, they may have a component of GCR as well. Our goal is always to push towards owner-direct, but depending on future acquisitions and the stage of the business, that will kind of ebb and flow a little bit. The focus has not changed and will not change to push towards owner-direct. Speaker 200:28:49Okay, great. Thank you. I'll turn it over. Speaker 500:28:53Thank you. Our next question comes from Brian Brophy with Stifel. Please go ahead. Speaker 500:29:00Yeah, thanks. Good morning, everybody. Just a quick question on the guidance. Does the change only reflect the contribution from Pioneer Power, or was the organic, kind of base number tweaked a little bit lower here as well? If so, what drove the organic change? Thanks. Speaker 200:29:20Yeah, so from the guidance perspective, a lot of this has to do from a Pioneer Power. You know, it's our largest acquisition as a public company, so we want to make sure the initial projections are conservative and from a measured perspective. I think as we go from kind of continue from a phase one perspective, and kind of the steps that I talked about before, we're going to kind of take a look at that as we go forward. Speaker 200:29:47Okay. On the ODR backlog, it fell a little bit sequentially here. Is there anything to call out as notable drivers? Just curious if you're seeing any sort of change in the demand environment or if this is more of just kind of a timing issue on the backlog. Thanks. Speaker 200:30:07Yeah, no, I think it's really timing-based. I think we have the backlog as a component of it. It's not the only component because we get into burning work. It could be time and material work that goes very quickly through. I think what we're seeing is, again, I feel like it's our ability with customers that have to spend. That doesn't mean that it automatically translates to revenue from us, from our perspective. I definitely think from a sales perspective, we're continuing to learn. One thing too that, from our team, we've recently hired our Senior Vice President of Sales, Amy Dorset. I think our ability to translate OpEx into CapEx, this hire has been a long time coming, but I think that's going to be something that's really pivotal from a go-to-market perspective as well, using her expertise from various OEMs and to add a different element. Speaker 200:31:03I think a lot of times with customers, it's translating that technical type sale into a financial sale that involves return on investment type calculations. It's almost like a different language for our sales team. I think that's going to be a big thing as we go to 2026 and 2027, looking ahead from a sales perspective. Speaker 200:31:23Okay. You touched on some of this already, but in regards to some of the sales folks you've hired over the past couple of quarters, particularly the onsite account managers, I'm just curious how that ramp-up is going relative to expectations in terms of their contribution. Speaker 200:31:41Yeah, I think anytime we bring somebody on, there's always a ramp-up time. Occasionally, we'll be in a situation where we'll have somebody that perfectly aligns up where they're an account, it's ready to go. I think as we learn going forward, we hope that that ramp-up time shortens. From what we've seen, I think relatively from an expectation perspective, the hires that we make to kind of get those true contributions, it takes a decent amount of time. It's almost like you're making hires for really full-year contributions for the following year. We've done that the last three years and made a real big investment from a sales perspective. As those accounts mature, as those salespeople mature in their experience level with the company, that's going to lead to a better return. I think also it'll help us from a ramp-up period. Speaker 200:32:30Generally, they performed where we thought they were going to perform. Speaker 200:32:36Very helpful. I'll pass it on. Thank you. Speaker 200:32:39Thanks. Speaker 500:32:41Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, as there are no further questions, I would now like to hand the conference over to Michael McCann for closing comments. Speaker 200:32:51Thank you for listening today and for your continued interest in Limbach. We look forward to connecting with many of you soon. Coming up in September, we are attending the Lake Street Big Nine Conference in New York and the D.A. Davidson Diversified Industrials and Service Conference in Nashville. Have a great rest of your day. Speaker 500:33:09Thank you. 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